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Theodora Sutcliffe
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Freelance hackette, content queen and recovering nomad. Working on a novel. #TeslaTakedown
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Cambodian protesters in Trafalgar Square cc @jaimegill.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Cover of Martin MacInnes' In Ascension showing a woman in the ocean. Shoutlines include booker prize 2023 long listed, transcendental (New Scientist), magnificent (Guardian), monumental (Telegraph).
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Cover of Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men showing a young woman and the moon. The blurb from the New York Times calls it "a small miracle".
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Cover of Julia Armfield's Private Rites, showing a flooded city in hues of blue and green. The shoutline is author of Our Wives Under the Sea.
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Cover of Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn showing peas in a pod on a green background with the line 'a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable'.
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Cover of Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan showing a dapper man walking a gilded path. Praise includes: 'Majestic' independent 'thrilling' evening standard 'extraordinary' marina Hyde 'addictively enjoyable' guardian, 'a barnstorming book' observer. In fact the cover folds open to make space for more praise.
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Cover of Rie Qudan's Sympathy Tower Tokyo with a note saying winner of the Ahugawa prize and translated by Jesse Winwood. It shows a woman in a cylindrical skyscraper with cranes and gardens.
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Cover of Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds: the Octopus, the Sea, and the deep origins of consciousness. It shows a beautifully stylised octopus.
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Cover of David Mitchell's Ghostwritten, showing a blossoming branch with a blue serpent against a red background. An endorsement begins 'The best first novel I have read in ages...'
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Cover of cory doctorow's enshittification: why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it. The only images are a poop emoji and a guillotine emoji.
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I'm reading Cory Doctorow's Enshittification, about how Big Tech is making everything (particularly tech) worse and what to do about it.
Cover of Cory Doctorow's Enshittifcation: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to do About it. It's plain text but for a poop and a guillotine emoji.
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Cover of Elie Wiesel's Night showing a man by the fence of a concentration camp in the shadow of crematoria smoke. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is the shoutline, with a blurb by Oprah Winfrey.
October 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Cover of The Unloved by Deborah Levy, showing a chateau reflected in water in purple light. Both blurbs mention she is Man Booker shortlisted...
October 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Cover of Hannah Thomas Uose's Who Wants To Live Forever with a blurb saying This is a must read, especially for fans of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.
October 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Truly, AGI is near.
Screenshot from Claude asking "What are you into, Don't use my name? Pick three topics to explore."
October 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Dogs at protests rock:
Beagle with a sign reading Liberal communist pinko beagle...
October 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Queue to write postcards at the US Embassy -- a rare sighting of typewriters in the wild....
October 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Cover of Goliath's Curse: the History and future of societal collapse by Luke Kemp. It shows a fallen pharaonic statue and has blurbs describing it as The Sunday Times too tem bestseller, sobering and strangely inspiring, and more.
October 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Plunge pools on the beach, Brighton style. And I swam! In October....
Rolltop bath plunge pool and bucket shower with succulent plants on Brighton Beach.
October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Breaking the silence of the silent walk
A group of people smiling against a sunset.
October 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Today's silent walk finished up with sunset on the cliffs.
Setting sun reflected in the sea below chalk cliffs.
October 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Picture of people holding an anti-Musk sign with the headline "Tesla's UK sales plunge by £500m as drivers boycott Elon Musk" and the subhead "Carmaker's profits also sink amid a backlash against the billionaire's politics"
September 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Screenshot from Popbitch reading: Not helping matters? A recent sign in the women’s toilets at The Sun, encouraging staff to avoid leaving it like “the scene of a Wonka factory site visit catastrophe”.
September 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Really enjoying Goliath's Curse!
Text arguing that successful psychopaths end up as executives and politicians, unsuccessful ones as prisoners.
September 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Almost as impressed by my mum's allotment dahlias as I am by her allotment raspberry gin
Exuberant pink and purple dahlias with a glass of pink gin.
September 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM